Month: January 2026
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Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. — The Diamond Sutra The Diamond Sutra is a Mahāyāna Buddhist text, composed sometime between the 2nd and 5th centuries CE.…
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It’s come to my recent attention that a surprising number of people these days dream of the same kind of place: a vast indoor world of malls, corridors, food courts, escalators, hotels, sometimes schools or airports all folded into the same space. It feels familiar rather than strange, like somewhere you’ve been many times, even…
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There is a subtle but interesting pattern hiding in plain sight in modern culture. It appears in the kinds of stories we tell, the political language we use, the technologies we build, and the way we imagine the future. It also appears, when it’s interpreted through the right lens, in Strauss–Howe generational theory. I want…
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I. The Strangest Feature of Reality Isn’t it odd that anything exists? It’s most peculiar. It requires effort, it requires energy, and it would have been so much easier for there to have been nothing at all. — Alan Watts The universe, as far as we can tell, does not care about us. Left to…
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A Structural Reading of an Apocalyptic Text I’m not interested in the Book of Revelation as divine prophecy or a supernatural prediction of the end of the world. I’m interested in it as a text that keeps waking up. For nearly two thousand years, people have looked at Revelation and concluded that this moment —…